Towns > Glasgow > 1787 - Reprint of Jones's directory; or, Useful pocket companion for the year 1787

NOTE.
About two years ago, a Reprint of Jones's Directory for the year
1789 was issued, along with an Introduction, in which the Editor
makes the following statement regarding the work on hand: — " The
*' Preface seemed to indicate that it was the first ever published, but he
" (the Editor) afterwards discovered that it was really the second,
" the first having been printed two years before, in 1787. It is exactly
" like this in size and appearance — containing nearly as many names,
*'but nothing more than names, designations, and addresses. The
" second is in every way more curious and complete. It contains an
*' extremely interesting Appendix of about twenty pages of Lists, &c."
Now, it is charitable to suppose that the Editor of the '89 copy never
saw the first Directory issued by Nathaniel Jones. It is not
*■'■ exactly" like the second in size and appearance; because the type
is not the same, the size is different, the arrangement is different,
and the first edition contains a great deal more than names, designa-
tions, and addresses. It contains, in fact, twenty-six pages of " hsts,"
being six pages more than the second pubHcation; and as a whole it
is decidedly more interesting, more curious, and more complete than
its bigger and younger brother. For these reasons, it has been
thought advisable to publish this Reprint of the first Glasgow Direc-
tory, compiled by Mr. Jones. It is peculiarly interesting on account
of being the first; and the publisher of the Reprint has been extremely
careful to make the new copy as like the old original as arrangement,
foi-m of type, and specially prepared paper can make it.